del.icio.us Bill G. Kelm IDS 150: Research in the Information Age April 3, 2007

What is del.icio.us? Social Software Store your bookmarks online Tag your bookmarks Share your bookmarks with others Subscribe to bookmarks with RSS

Creating an account

Adding new bookmarks

Tagging Adding “a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied to.” (Wikipedia)

Tagging example

Importance of tagging “Ask yourself: What words would people use to find this item? del.icio.us will provide suggested tags Tags are searchable!

“Folksonomy” A practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. Refers to a group of people cooperating spontaneously to organize information into categories. (Wikipedia)

Flickr popularity Photo sharing web site with an online community Photos are tagged and browsed by “folksonomic” means

My booksmarks

Importing your boomarks

Editing a bookmark

Tag Bundles Logical groupings of related tags you’ve used. Create them via settings | bundle tags

Bundle tags

Rename & delete tags Settings rename tags Settings delete tags

Your network Think of it as your del.icio.us friends list. Add other users to your network to keep track of what they’re bookmarking.

your network

for: Add the tag for: username to send a bookmark to another del.icio.us user. Users in your network will appear as suggested tags when you add a new bookmark.

links for you

subscriptions Like your network but for tags. Can be limited to a tag when used by a specific user.

Searching

Privacy It is possible to mark bookmarks as private, i.e. not seen by others. You must first turn this option on in settings | private saving.

Firefox addons del.icio.us classic del.icio.us Bookmarks

del.icio.us classic Adds buttons to the toolbar to access your del.icio.us account and to add bookmarks.

del.icio.us bookmarks Replaces Firefox’s bookmarking system with the content of your del.icio.us account.

RSS in del.icio.us All accounts and/or tags have associated RSS feeds available. (Find it at the bottom of the page.)

Reading a del.icio.us feed RSS: Short for R DF S ite S ummary or R ich S ite S ummary, an XML format for syndicating Web content. (webopedia.com) R DFXMLsyndicating RSS readers both web-based and desktop clients

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Credits Michael Sauers, OCLC

Thank You Comments or questions? Bill Kelm